Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Extremely helpful add-on to manage contacts and to sync them via carddav. My critics is with the date format. As end user it's completely irrelevant for me in which format dates are saved internally. But to display and edit dates I want to have a format, which corresponds to the locale/region, like "DD.MM.YYYY". The required format "YYYYMMDD" to enter birthdates is suboptimal - kindly expresed.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (33.4).

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

Dear developer,I love your AddOn it covers so much of missing development on Thunderbird!But I think a found a serious BUG. When I drag and drop a category on the left side just under the dynamic address book search "all contacts" to another position within "all contacts" the category gets deleted together with the whole contacts.

Same happens, when I drap and drop a category from my addressbook to "all contacts", the use case obviously wouldn't make sense, but shouldn't end in such a destructive behaviour.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

UPDATE: Philippe has been great about fixing things, and has fixed the data loss in the new Beta version, near as I can tell. Since CardBook is going to be a very good add-on, I'm changing my Rating for it.

OLD REVIEW BELOW:

*** DATA LOSS ALERT ***

And yes, I will contact the author about it as soon as I post this here.

CardBook is a potentially good addon, with (so far) a pretty serious data error in the concatenated (lumped together) Email and URL fields. This bug DELETES data from Email (No Type) and URL (No Type) - and possibly from the other URL fields - and stores the deleted data ONLY in the concatenated field. It does not put the deleted email addrs and urls back in their original fields when exporting. They are trapped in the CardBook concatenated fields and would have to be copied out manually one at a time to export them or back them up into another format. If you can even figure out which email addrs and urls are the deleted ones.

The Name fields are also concatenated - but in this case it's only for display purposes, no data is deleted, and all the data exports just fine. The author very probably intended the Email and URL fields to work the same as the Name fields. I.e., without any data loss.

A program that deletes your data should not be used, so I'm sure the author will fix this issue ASAP.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Another thing I miss, is the possibility to store addresses directly on a different location, e.g a cloud. This in order to synchronize with other computers. Synchronizing with other local computers does not function now. The files get corrupted, probably because the prefs.js file also needs to be synchronized at the same time. But this again causes problems with other add-ons. Maybe cardbook needs an own prefs.js file.

This review is for a previous version of the add-on (33.4).
This user has 2 previous reviews of this add-on.

1/ ooh stupid me : 32.7 (in instance of approbation) will correct this bug2/ 3/ you surely do not have the same address book version... create address books with the same version (3.0) on your two computers and this should solve this issue

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Its good that someone writes something to use with CardDAV, but its far away from useful. Its a completely new IDE, when we just needed a interface. please do not rewrite the address-book of Thunderbird. Do just the Interface to CardDAV.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

It's very good while running on Thunderbird below V60. Here the sync with a synology works without problems.

After Tunderbird V60 it's broken. Checking the carddav-server fails whther you do it with https://IP:Port or https://IP:Port/addressbooks/users/$USER/addressbook or https://IP:Port/addressbooks/users/$USER/addressbook/. The tip to set the cookie variable from true to false also doesn't work here.